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    COLOBUS

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Arboreal monkey of western and central Africa with long silky fur and reduced thumbsplay

    Synonyms:

    colobus; colobus monkey

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting animals

    Hypernyms ("colobus" is a kind of...):

    catarrhine; Old World monkey (of Africa or Arabia or Asia; having nonprehensile tails and nostrils close together)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "colobus"):

    Colobus guereza; guereza (a colobus monkey with a reddish brown coat and white silky fringes down both sides of the body)

    Holonyms ("colobus" is a member of...):

    genus Colobus (a genus of Cercopithecidae)

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